Laura T. Murphy
Laura T. Murphy is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University in New Orleans. Her work has appeared in Research in African Literatures and in Studies in the Novel.
Author of…
Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature
Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, this book shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation.…
- Cecilia Macheski
Associate professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY… - Giacomo Macola
Lecturer in African history at the University of Kent at Canterbury… - Gregory H. Maddox
Professor of history at Texas Southern University and author of Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History and coauthor of Practicing History in Central Tanzania: Writing, Memory, and Performance… - Gary Brent Madison
- James Madison
- Timothy P. Maga
Oglesby Professor of American Heritage at Bradley University… - Daniel R. Magaziner
Assistant professor of history at Yale University… - Mary Alice Mairose
Residence curator at the Ohio Governor's Residence… - Karen Majewski
Assistant professor of Polish and East Central European Studies at St. Mary's College of Ave Maria University, Orchard Lake, Michigan… - M. Akin Makinde
- Makuchi
- Peter Nathaniel Malae
2007-08 Steinbeck Fellow at San José State University… - Tan Malaka
- Candy Malherbe
Historian and writer… - T. L. Maliyamkono
- François Manchuelle
Killed on TWA 800 flight to Paris in 1996… - Donald C. Maness
Dean of the College of Education at Arkansas State University and a professor in the Teacher Education department… - Jeff Mann
Professor of creative writing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia… - David Marburger
- Julia Markus
- David G. Marr
- John B. Marshall
- Herbert Woodward Martin
Author of six books of poetry, two opera libretti, and the text for a new Magnificat… - Peter W. Martin
- Stephen Martin
Research Coordinator of the Research Institute on Christianity in South Africa… - Barbara Martin-Schiller
- Maria Elena Martinez-Torres
Faculty member in the Environment and Society Program of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology-Southeast Campus in Chiapas, Mexico… - Gregory H. Mason
Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota… - Paul F. Mattheisen
Associate professor of English, SUNY, Binghamton… - Jack Matthews
- Washington Matthews
- John Matthias
Author of seven previous volumes of poetry… - Christof Mauch
Previously the director of the German Historical Institute in Washington… - David Maxwell
Professor at the University of Keele… - Charles E. May
Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach… - Rachel A. May
- Stephen J. May
- Melanie J. Mayer
Associate professor of psychology and psychobiology at the University of California, Santa Cruz… - E. L. Mayo
- Carolyn L. Mazloomi
Quilting African American Women’s History: Our Challenges, Creativity, and Champions… - Alamin Mazrui
Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the Ohio State University and visiting professor in the department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University… - Govan Mbeki
- M. S. H. McArthur
- James C. McCann
Professor of history and the associate director of the African Studies Center at Boston University… - Grace McClure
Free-lance writer currently living in Tucson, Arizona… - Brian McCook
Senior lecturer in history and politics at Leeds Metropolitan University… - Jane McDermid
Lecturer in history at New College, University of Southampton… - Stacy Pratt McDermott
Assistant director and associate editor of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, and the coeditor of The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases and The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln… - David A. McDonald
Co-director of the Municipal Services Project, a multi-partner research program examining the impact of policy reforms on the delivery of basic municipal services to the urban and rural poor in southern Africa… - Beth McElfresh
- Dianne McElwain
Member of the American Society of Botanical Artists in New York… - Richard Mcginn
- Marcia Phillips McGowan
Director of Women’s Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, Connecticut… - Thomas McGrath
- JoAnn McGregor
Lecturer in geography at the University of Reading… - James E. McGuire
Professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh and holds a secondary appointment in the department of philosophy… - Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
Distinguished professor of history emerita, University of Colorado… - W. Carey McWilliams
Professor of political science at Rutgers University and has studied the presidency and presidential elections since 1980… - Henri Médard
At M.A.L.D in Montreuil… - Joshua Mehigan
Born in upstate New York in 1969… - John Meigs
Lecturer on American art, a collector of American graphics, and a consultant on acquisition for several museums… - Roger Meintjes
- H. L. Mencken
- Richard Mendelsohn
Head of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town… - Jayne Merkel
- Joseph J. Mersman
- Susan Labry Meyn
Consulting ethnologist and an adjunct professor at Northern Kentucky University and the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, and the author of numerous articles and a book, More Than Curiosities: A Grassroots History of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, 1920–1942… - Niq Mhlongo
- Algis Mickunas
- Stephen Middleton
Professor of constitutional history at North Carolina State University… - Suzanne Miers
Professor emerita of history at Ohio University… - Kenneth J. Mijeski
Professor emeritus of political science at East Tennessee State University… - David Mikics
Author of The Limits of Moralizing: Pathos and Subjectivity in Spenser and Milton, as well as articles on contemporary literature and literary theory… - Carol Poh Miller
Historical consultant in Cleveland, where she works on a broad range of historic preservation, research, and writing projects for business, government, nonprofit organizations, and private individuals… - Danny L. Miller
Chair of the Department of Literature and Language at Northern Kentucky University… - Edward H. Miller
Retired from Hocking Valley Railway successor CSX… - Joseph C. Miller
T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of history at the University of Virginia… - Jerry Minnich
Honored with the Award of Merit from the Garden Writer's Association of America in 1984… - Patrick P. Molutsi
- Johanna E. Moody
Born in Vienna and lived for a number of years during her adult life in Kano, Nigeria… - Martha Moody
Novelist and physician from Dayton, Ohio, whose three previous books of fiction have sold close to 1 million copies… - Dinty W. Moore
Winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize in 2009… - Lloyd E. Moore
Born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1931 and attended Ohio State University, earning BA and JD degrees… - Marissa J. Moorman
Assistant professor of African history at Indiana University, Bloomington… - Moore Moran
- Thomas Lewis Morgan
Assistant professor of English at the University of Dayton… - William Morris
- Carol A. Morrison
- Iain P. D. Morrisson
Instructional assistant professor in the Honors College at the University of Houston… - Michele Morrone
Associate professor of environmental health sciences and director of Environmental Studies at Ohio University… - William G. Moseley
Associate professor of geography at Macalester College… - Robert H. Moser
Associate professor of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at the University of Georgia… - Barbara A. Moss
Assistant professor of history at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia… - Danuta Mostwin
- David H. Mould
Associate dean for research and graduate studies in the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University… - Phaswane Mpe
- Luyanda ka Msumza
- Benjamin N. Muego
- Edward A. Mueller
- Edward K. Muller
Professor of history and director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh… - William A. Munro
- Brenda Murphy
Author of American Realism and American Drama, 1880–1940, Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theatre, and, with George Monteiro, the editor of John Hay—Howells Letters… - James Murphy
Research assistant and Curator of Collections, Department of Geology, Case Western Reserve University… - John L. Murphy
Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder… - Laura T. Murphy
Assistant professor of English at Loyola University in New Orleans… - Timothy Murphy
Venture capitalist who farms and hunts in his native North Dakota… - John Muthyala
Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine… - Garth Myers
Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban and International Studies in the Center for Urban and Global Studies and Department of International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut… - Timo Myllyntaus
Senior lecturer of economic and social history at the University of Helsinki…
